10 Trends in Music That Need to Stop

posted by on October 25, 2012 in Features, Lists
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Stop Sign1 10 Trends in Music That Need to Stop

Maybe we’re just curmudgeons, but there are a lot of things happening in music right now that piss us off. As the end of the year approaches, we hope we can leave these terrible trends behind and start off 2013 by not looking like a bunch of culturally corrosive assholes.

By Confusion with contributions from Luis Tovar

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  • Birdman17

    Love the post. I agree with all of them except the hoedowns. Have you ever been to a OCMS show? Nonstop hoedown and it is magical. MORE HOEDOWNS

  • Bird

    music sampling from older songs is the most annoying though..

  • random Bystander

    I have one. Rappers taking a popular niche sound (usually from one region– think “Chief Keef” and that sound) and co-opting it and using it and abusing it to oblivion. At least Drake gives credit, like on Motto “I’ma do this for the Bay, rest in peace Mac Dre” and whatever shoutouts he did on “Us” off Black Bar Mitzvah that I didn’t memorize yet. But if everything has the same cadence as : A SNITCH/ NIGGA/ THATS THAT SHIT I DONT/ LIKE! it starts/ to get/ BORING. n thats that shit I dont like.

  • http://www.pigeonsandplanes.com Jon Tanners

    @Bird: So are you saying there shouldn’t be sampling at all? I think that’s a bit harsh, no? Maybe more creative sampling than what occurs in a Flo Rida song, but NO sampling of old songs?

    Also, not so sure I’d call sampling a “trend”–it’s been an integral piece of multiple genres since the late 70s and early 80s. Some do it far better than others, but a few shitty whole cloth samples does not a trend make.

  • um

    contradiction much? on the last slide…

  • http://huacakiwi.tumblr.com franko sinatra

    ouch, the last one hurt me on some level.

  • http://www.busstophustle.tumblr.com BusStopHustle

    Solid list. Every piece can be tied back to the same idea: be original and move forward.

  • Dan

    i agree with most of these; that said, there are some cool dubstep covers out there, of some truly odd things (and i generally hate dubstep) so i can’t say that much against them…

  • Manic

    Shawts at The Weeknd with number 9.

  • Chase

    I am glad you included the one about hoedowns. I really did enjoy Mumford’s first album, but the newest one is comprised of too many amped up songs. Nothing wrong with bringing energy to folk and americana, but subtle songs are just as effective.

  • Kamil

    Can’t agree more with the first one. Like Snoop Dogg trying to change his name to Snoop Lion, it’s a publicity stunt.

  • Chopz

    @Jon Tanners

    I hope that @bird is saying that old samples (sometimes whole songs) are getting turned into new songs with little or no extra production value a la Lupe Fiasco and some other recent tracks that I can’t think of right now.

    @bird

    I’ve been hearing samples in songs that I originally thought were just drums, guitars, or original compositions, but they almost always turn out to be sampled from old songs even if it’s just the drumline. With that said, some of the samples in Cruel Summer were mindblowing to me.

  • offbeat

    thanks, i needed this… i feel like i’m taking crazy pills!!!

  • SylvanScott

    thought for SURE you’d include the fucking trend that seemingly every band is raping itself with. WHEN BANDS DON’T USE VOWELS IN THEIR NAMES!! completely hipsterizes their bandname.

  • Confusion

    haha last slide was a joke. And @SylvanScott, yeah thats definitely a good one!

  • Melanie

    I like that last one ;]

  • https://twitter.com/whoahblackbetty BB

    Hopefully the irony of the 11th trend isn’t lost on P&P. Just sayin’.

  • w.m.j.

    It might just be me, but the “trap rap” drums are starting to kill me, anybody in that style just has the same drums in every song it seems like with the brrrrrrttttt brrrtttt and it’s getting old

  • Justin

    Ah, didn’t you just feature Lips’ cover of Frank Ocean’s “Super Rich Kids” a few days ago under the headline “10 Songs You Should Download Right Now”?

  • Greeg

    Do people really not realize that number 11 was a joke?

  • CARDZ

    The last slide…I dig it! ;-)

  • Confusion

    @Justin yeah that was the last cover allowed. After that FOH

  • Merk

    Boy Bands 2.0? I think we’re probably on version 13.2 at this point. They’re as constant as the biz itself, and we can look forward to many, many more (unfortunately).

  • http://www.soundcloud.com/dj-white-lotus 2xUeL

    LOL’d @ Bands That Throw Hoedowns on Every Song

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYGb4ryT3DM Angela

    Nothing wrong with a “boy band”, as long as they can sing and dance, which NSYNC could.

  • Confusion

    As long as at least 2 of the members in the band have frosted tips I guess it’s okay

  • http://www.thetugboat.com/ autotelic

    Madge. Her age finally matches her name.

  • Humza

    Another trend that I hate is that most pop songs have a house beat. I’ve got nothing against house music but when every song on the radio starts to sound the same it gets really annoying.

  • bkonwh

    this is one of the saddest whines Ive read in a long time congrats on reaching 19 years old & sharing your world weary view of all that is popular “today” but not cool “to you”! You are to young to understand you are only talking about “disposable leisure time distractions” & it is not unlike the wind over a slaughter house “unpleasant to most of us”. Its cute you just noticed the 11 year old girls have different tastes – your hidden agenda is probably that you realize that you are finally too old for them to notice you. My God we had this theme in the 60s! (Wild in the Streets” etc.). Dont worry you will get over it. What you have to look forward to is the minuscule moment of time where “the sound track of your life” was written becomes irrelevant to all but your small circle. Perhaps this “article”??? would have more meaning if you looked into the music of Scott Walker – his tale is amazing and circumvents your sadness of the state of today to a guy who went from having the screaming adulation of millions of teenage girls as a teenage heart throb to throwing all away to become an impossible to listen too dadist futurist composer & he even has a new album. Thats what its all about making music for your self not the state of today.

  • Kirby

    Yes. ESPECIALLY the dubstep remixes and the dubstep breakdowns appear on most songs on the radio right now.

  • Victor Lopez

    #7 Especially! Thank you for pointing these out. I agree all of these things need to change

  • Theo

    #3 can’t be overstated enough. I used to be that type of person that would just listen to the old stuff because it was real “rock” or “rap”, but after a while I got tired of listening to the same thing.

    it was after hearing Amy winehouse after she died, i vowed to give everything the chance, I missed such a great artist just because I was stubborn about what I listened to.

  • Andreea

    Agree with everything. We are in a world dominated by: cheap dance music, dubstep remixes and mtv.

    Most of the people don’t listen to good and nice music anymore they just settle on the latest fad.

  • nopeok

    lol @ boybands.. like the beatles? you know that english band of boys who had a shit ton of followers especially teenage girls and people made fun of them bc they were considered “effeminate” with their looks? lol. I think you will have to deal with boy/girl bands until the end of time tbh. they’re not the 2,0 version they’re more like 8,0. And madonna has always beffed with someone, gaga, mariah etc. it’s not her trying to be ~cool grandma~it’s just her being a bitch.

  • whoa

    was gonna talk shit but then i saw the bonus trend and realized yall are fuckin awesome.

  • http://twitter.com/aboynamedandy aboynamedandy

    “She’s latched her crusty old lips to the teet of Current Trends and she hasn’t stopped sucking since.”

    Hahahahaha! Oh my days.

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  • Juice Bocks

    @nopeok…so wrong..I feel dumb after reading that.

  • RG

    “The first few times it’s like, “Ohhh hell yeah, fuck everything, icing for breakfast!” After a week of that you’re bloated and getting headaches every afternoon and you’re in the mood for nothing but beef jerky and a hand job.”

    Hahahaha

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  • http://sessionbloggers.blogspot.co.uk Session Blogger

    This is one of my favourite posts this year, love it. One thing about boy bands though, in the long run though I believe pop music like that is good as it is melodic and is a good way of getting kids into music. My 5 year old loves One Direction and the Spice Girls, at that age my favourite bands were Wham and Bucks Fizz. Kids are so busy with other stuff nowadays e.g. games consoles etc that to get them into music it has to be bloody catchy. And One Direction are bloody catchy (and I’m 37 years old). My daughter finds my music boring at the moment but at least she is listening to music, as I did at her age. Once she gets older her tastes will change, at the moment I’m just glad she loves music no matter what she listens to. Ps sorry I went on for so long :)

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